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    Kritios Boy

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    One of my favorite pieces of art that we have studied so far is the statue Kritios Boy. I am very intrigued by the background history of this statue. It is believed to have been created by the sculptor Kritios hence the name of the statue. The Kritios Boy is one of the first statues to focus on how a person actually stands. The term for this is contrapposto. According to Google‚ Contrapposto is an Italian word meaning counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure with most

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    Being a Girl

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    Being Girl: A Sociological Memoir My first memory of kindergarten was this: dozens of tiny‚ petrified 5-year-olds being dropped off at their first day of school‚ and dozens of exhausted‚ overworked mothers consoling their weeping sons and daughters. I remember it vividly because‚ despite the terror and chaos‚ a single thought pervaded my mind‚ the thought that “these moms are not as pretty as my mom.” I wasn’t entirely biased‚ either. By North American standards

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    For Colored Girls

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    Colored Girls Opening: Four women who were prominent in our Black History stood up in opposition to the odds placed against them. Listen as they tell us about their lives‚ pain‚ and struggles on how it was to be colored (as they were labeled) during the years of segregation and the civil rights movement. I hope you get a message from this presentation and please enjoy. Teresa Hi – I’m Rosa Parks and I’m a colored girl--on Dec. 1‚ 1955 in Montgomery Alabama-- I refused to give up my

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    The Lost Boys

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    Approximately 26‚000 boys‚ during the late 1980’s‚ fled the southern part of Sudan in an effort to escape the violence that had consumed their country. With such an enormous amount of refugees fleeing Sudan‚ it was described as an “exodus of biblical proportions”(Corbett‚ 2001). These refugees were dubbed “The Lost Boy” due to the many similarities they had with the Peter Pan’s followers in the story Neverland. Like the fictional characters in the story‚ most of these boys‚ whose ages were all below

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    Boys of Baraka

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    American families are suffering from the violence and substance abuse in their towns today‚ as reflected in the film “Boys of Baraka”. This film focuses on four young African American boys and their families from an inner city in Baltimore; Richard and brother Romash‚ Devon‚ and Montrey. As a result of the lack of discipline and an increased violence rate‚ these African American boys are suffering education-wise. Luckily‚ the Baraka School in Africa was designed for these children and gave them hope

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    The Scottsboro Boys

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    The Scottsboro Boys All of us know the feeling of getting blamed for something we haven ’t done. With that in mind try imaging getting put in jail for years for a crime you didn’t commit. That was the case for nine black men in Alabama in the year 1931.There was so much physical evidence proving that the nine boys were innocent‚ however the extreme racism Alabama government officials had towards African Americans is arguably the biggest factor that lead to this injustice

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    Boy at the Window

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    The “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur is a poignant poem. Richard Wilbur “said that he wrote the “Boy at the Window” after seeing how distressed his five-year-old son was about a snowman they had built” was stuck out in a storm (Clugston‚ 2010). Poignant can be described as an awareness of both beauty and loss through powerful feelings or pain. Poetry has this beautiful gift of being able to evoke strong feelings in the reader. In the “Boy at the Window” the poet captures the innocent nature

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    Save Girl

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    Women are the receiving end in Indian society. They are will treated or tortured at every stage. A girl child is in bondage from her very childhood. She is under constant‚ vigil First by the parents‚ then her husband and finally her own children. Not only that‚ she is often condemned to death even before she is born. This is called female killing in the womb itself. In ancient India the birth of a girl child was hailed as auspicious. An old Indian proverb lies down that a home without a daughter is

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    Stone boy

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    Stone boy “Arnold presses down the bottom wire‚ thrust a leg through and leaned forward to bring the other leg after. His rifle caught on the wire and he jerked at it. The air was rocked by the sound of the shot. Feeling foolish he lifted his face‚ expecting to see his brother laughing at him. He fell to his knees and pitched forward onto his face. Arnold squatted beside his brother “Eugie?” Then Arnold saw it‚ at the nape of the neck – a slow rise of bright blood.” The stone boy is happening on

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    The History Boys

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    What elements of Bennetts own educational experiences has he used in “the History Boys”? Bennett says that he was made fun of at school for coming to school in a suit on the day of his exams. He says he did this because he thought the exam was an occasion and he must rise to it. This show us how he felt towards his exams and probably shows how some of the boys in his book would have felt like when taking their exams. This shows how important he thinks exams are and this theme will probably reflect

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